[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#533022: ghc6: Data.Word should define instances of Random for each type

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi Josh,

Am Samstag, den 13.06.2009, 12:39 -0700 schrieb Josh Triplett:
> Package: ghc6
> Version: 6.10.3-2
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: upstream
> 
> Data.Word defines signed and unsigned integer types for various bit
> sizes.  It would help if Data.Word made each type an instance of Random.
> Per <http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Orphan_instance>, such an
> instance should appear either in System.Random or Data.Word, and it
> makes more sense to do the latter.

upstream says in http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3352 that if
you want to have this feature, you should go through the process
outlined in http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library_submissions. Are
you interested in doing that?

Greetings,
Joachim

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